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Capsule Launched

Created 2022-05-27

We have liftoff

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Here's the announcement I made on Wordpress:

Exciting stuff: I've managed to create a public-facing Gemini

capsule. I have tested it over at an account I created atsdf.org.

So everything checks out and should be working hunky-dory. Note

that, for now, the site won't be active 24/7. I'll turn my

server off at night-time, pending a more permanent solution.

Point your favourite gemini client to:

gemini://blinkyshark.chickenkiller.com

and have it! The domain name is a bit of an oddity, admittedly,

but I'm using FreeDNS, so I'm kinda going with a name I can get.

The plan for the foreseeable future is that my blog will now

reside on Gemini rather than WordPress. WordPress is a nightmare.

The internet in general is a nightmare. I want to try out Gemini

for awhile and see how I get on.

I won't be abandoning the Interwebs permanently. I still need

that for banking and stuff. Not to mention my favourite finance

site: Stockopedia.

Choosing a subdomain was difficult, and I stuck with the first

thing that worked: blinkyshark. It is named after a user called

"Blinky The Shark". I did not know him personally, but I was

aware that he posted a lot on the alt.comp.freeware Usenet

group. I used to frequent that group a lot, and even produced

daily digests, courtesy of a kind soul who gave me an account on

his aging Sun Unix machine. My apologies, but I don't remember

his name. I think his surname was Schmitt, and lived in either

Australia or US, if memory serves. He was a member of the ACM,

I think.

Blinky The Shark's real name was Lee Rizor. He passed away on

31 Jan 2009 (or the day after) at the age of 61. His username was

based on him hearing that sharks do not blink. (Apparently they

do actually blink). Blinky kept a small website of free software

for some time.

So that's the story behind the name "blinkyshark".